Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society Advance Access originally published online on April 7, 2009
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 2009 41(3):515-523; doi:10.1112/blms/bdp023
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The equivariant Euler characteristic of real Coxeter toric varieties
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
Australia
anthonyh@maths.usyd.edu.au
Received 4 June 2008. Revision received 30 October 2008.
Let W be a Weyl group, and let
W be the complex toric variety attached to the fan of cones corresponding to the reflecting hyperplanes of W, and its weight lattice. The real locus
W(
) is a smooth, connected, compact manifold with a W-action. We give a formula for the equivariant Euler characteristic of
W(
) as a generalised character of W. In type An–1 for n odd, one obtains a generalised character of Symn whose degree is (up to sign) the nth Euler number.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 14M25, 14P25 (primary), 20C30, 14L30 (secondary).